Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasant from his long sleep of ignorance and superstition and the clumsiness with which they have tried to grasp hold of their new and streamlined life. Mr. Duranty often has an amused smile on his lips when he tells of the strange effects which the attempts to adapt themselves to their boss comrades' ideas of civilization have on these simple people, but he is gentle with them throughout and never sharply satirical...
...dramatization of the recent (1919-35) changes in Navajo Indian life. The Enemy Gods follows the general theme of Author La Farge's previous Indian fiction: the poor results of trying to adapt Indians to white wavs. The variation this time is a more ambitious social and political background. On the literary side the novel's chief failings appear at those points where the anthropologist, the sociologist and the novelist could not get together...
...held, among other things, that a "republic is and always will be the invariable form of all governments in America," postulated the Argentine Foreign Minister. "Five countries of America, including our own. are about to elect new governments.*... It is NOT true that our Constitutions must be changed to adapt them to certain idealisms! . . . Monroe set up a retaining dam against any tendency ... to disturb the republican principles and existing political regimes in the Americas...
...suit. To his Cities Service Co. he would donate $1,250,000, pay the opposing attorneys' fee, but under no conditions admit "any remissness" (TIME, Feb. 15). Mr. Doherty thereby concocted a formula which other rich men, suspected of remissness by their past or present stockholders, could readily adapt to their own needs. Last week Albert Henry Wiggin, boomtime head of Chase National Bank, offered $2,000,000 to settle stockholders' actions brought after Bankster Wiggin's embarrassing session with Ferdinand Pecora and the Senate Banking & Currency Committee in 1933. In his offer Mr. Wiggin revealed that...
...which the dismissal of the two economists inevitably leads. Does the present policy of the University over-emphasize research at the expense of teaching, and does the College cut off men in their prime whose teaching capacities are admittedly of the highest caliber and promise? Does the University adapt departmental budgets to meet the shifts in demand for various fields that occur from time to time? Is the system of hiring and firing really keeping at Harvard the most promising men, or is talent thrown to the winds merely because no openings can be found for capable instructors, despite...